Portret van een paar geliefden en twee portretten van vrouwen met bloemen 1900 - 1930

Circé compiled this album of postcards depicting lovers and women with flowers without a date. It makes me think about the emotional work that goes into making and collecting images. These look like images someone once treasured, maybe even cut out and saved. Look at that bouquet of flowers. Imagine the soft pinks, blues, and greens swirling together on a palette, shifting, emerging. The artist seems to be capturing something hopeful and romantic, a feeling that is probably universal. You see a woman with a bunch of roses, and you get the sense she knows how to arrange them just so. Art-making feels like that sometimes –– trying to arrange all the parts to express an emotion, a feeling. Circé is in conversation with all the other image-makers that came before, inspiring future artists to express their feelings.